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Plagued this year by a business recession and climbing unemployment, the government plans to cut back 1958 immigration to something like half of last year's 282,164. But the gates will doubtless swing wider just as soon as a reviving economy can absorb new manpower...
...wild display of popular joy in Jordan last week that followed the unity proclamation in Cairo and Damascus. Yet, said an Iraqi leader: "This is the more natural union." Iraq and Jordan go together geographically, historically, and even-because Iraq has the oil wealth and the living space to absorb Jordan's refugees-economically...
...BECAUSE the X-ray machine can penetrate the surface of a painting without doing any damage, it has long been an indispensable tool for art historians. Layers of paint on canvas (including the liberal amounts of white lead used by old masters to lighten their pigments) absorb X rays in varying amounts, thus producing on a negative a revealing shadowgraph. To the trained art scholar's eye, an X ray of a painting can often reveal its whole history, from the first unseen priming coat the artist put on the canvas, through the artist's corrections and overpainting...
MISSILE MERGER will bring together Reaction Motors, Inc. and Thiokol Chemical Corp., two of industry's fastest-rising pioneers. In $7,200,000 stock exchange, Thiokol, which specializes in solid-fuel engines for Nike-Hercules, La Crosse and Lockheed X-17 missiles, will absorb Reaction, a leader in liquid-fueled engines...
...shipments, anticipated that in five or six years oil-rich Alberta, for example, would be pumping 400,000 bbl. of oil daily into the U.S. market. Any move to set limits on Canadian oil imports was a signal to Canada not to count too much on the U.S. to absorb her rising oil production. Moreover, the curb fell at a bad time for the new Tory government. As part of its campaign for greater economic independence from the U.S., it had been holding up approval for the export of Canadian natural gas to the U.S. Now, to help oil companies...